I have to say something… It’s going to offend some people. I’m okay with that. Let’s all get uncomfortable. And then let’s grow. If you’re still reading—good. Please read to the end. I need you. I know many people who attended the Isreal Solidarity march today. They all spoke of beautiful community, pride and feeling safe and seen. This made me so happy because many friends have been terrified by the rise in antisemitism. (And I see you always. It is terrifying and I am constantly learning.) And then I saw video from the march—and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. When one of the speakers spoke of peace, people chanted in unison, “No ceasefire. No ceasefire.” What?? It made me so sad. “No ceasefire! No ceasefire!” What have we become if we are chanting against peace when a child is dying every 10 minutes? In the time it took me to write this—2 children were murdered. Also, it’s very easy to chant “no ceasefire” from here when you are not actually in the war zone. Imagine the smell of burning flesh, the dust coating your lungs, the taste of blood in the back of your throat, hearing the screams and feeling the vibration of bombs dropping. Sleep deprivation. Anxiety. Trauma. You can’t even imagine, right? And thank god. We are all so blessed and privileged to not be able to imagine what war actually is. “No ceasefire. No ceasefire!” We need a radical peace movement. What part will you play? What will you model for your children? What kind of world do we want? Please be responsible with your words and actions and what you post on social media. I beg of you. For the children. Be peace. Be light. Be love. #CeasefireNOW #RadicalPeaceNow
This is the outro to my podcast this week.
I just spent 2 minutes of my life scrolling through your feed from October 7. You never condemned Hamas, and you only began your virtue signaling once Israel started defending its people. So it would be great if you just sat down, hypocrite, and let those who actually understand how to fight evil do their thing.
I'm pretty sure if you had family that was murdered or your child was a hostage, you wouldn't want ceasefire. The fact of the matter is hamas is using these people as body shields. Casualties in war happen. I don't say that lightly because I believe in humanity. All life has value. Innocent lives that is. Hamas murdered over 1400 people that were innocent. They will continue to attack until Israel is gone. From the river to the sea. What do you think that means? There will never be peace for Israel or Palenstinians until hamas is dead. That's it. Terrorists must be eliminated.
Hamas is using hostages and Palestinian civilians, including children, as human shields to avoid destruction by Israel. The UN and our own government, as well as others, are urging Israel to hold back to save those innocents, but is that the moral thing to do? Sometimes, in deciding how to address such questions, it helps to reduce it to a personal level. Imagine you are armed and you confront a mad gunman intent on shooting a school full of children. Naturally, it is moral to stop him with deadly force, but he snatches up a little girl and holds her up as a human shield. Do you hold fire? If you do, or if you even hesitate, he is going to shoot you, kill the little girl himself, and then go on to kill scores of other children. The ONLY moral choice you have is to shoot through the little girl to stop him. Yes, the little girl will die, and you will have nightmares about it the rest of your life, but you must stop him nonetheless, horrible as that may be. Israel faces that same choice. Destroying Hamas, because Palestinians have allowed themselves to be used as human shields, cannot be done without horrendous civilian casualties. But if Israel allows Hamas to survive by hiding behind civilians, it will continue slaughtering innocents decades into the future. Worse, by allowing the tactic to succeed, that invites continued use of human shields by other terrorists all over the world. The use of human shields is universally recognized as a war crime for good reason.
@Alyssa_Milano Ya, it's true. No ceasefire until Hamas surrenders and every hostage is released. Terrorism must be eliminated wherever it is.
Well Alyssa This is what made me sad. Watch it all the way through of you can. This is why we say #NoCeasefire. You should be sad that all the hostages haven’t been released after 40 days and some have already died or been killed. You should be sad that Hamas is still using the hostages and their own people as human shields. You should be sad that #Jews just went through the worst one day slaughter since the #holocaust. But you’re not. You’re sad they said jo ceasefire. t.co/uFHejdQWAn